OUR OKRA HOMESTEAD GARDEN IS BLOOMING

HELLO guys here @homesteading, it's been a while coming around , but regardless this is my home, cause it's always excites me whenever I have to deal with nature myself, planting, cultivating, nurturing some of my favourites at my home stead farmland just around my house, altho I also have some big farm were I do some mega farming on a large commercial scale as well, but there's this joy I often get whenever I wake up to see my little planting blossoming with her flowers telling me it's time to bare so I should get ready for harvesting soon enough lol....

So just in front of my small house is a small HOMESTEAD garden were I gorw and nurture the okra plants,

WHAT IS OKRA

Okra is an edible seed pod that comes in green and red varieties, lot of people typically refer to it as a vegetable but meanwhile it's technically a fruit okra is part of the mallow family of botanicals which also includes cocoa and cotton.

Basically here In Africa especially in western Africa okra commonly pronounced as okro is a very popular vegetable used in making very delicious soups, due to it's easy method of using it for cooking soup it is often mostly consumed here, the health benefits of these plants is just too overwhelming, it's so rich in numerous vitamins and minerals has a lot of positive health addition in the body, plus the economic value, as an economic plants the okro when duely nurtured can bring in a very cool decent cashback every week, more reason why I have decided to started off Marketing some of it after harvesting.

THE CULTIVATION PROCESS OF THE OKRA PLANT

HERE in my hands are dried okra pods, containing the dry seeds, like this particular one here, I just plugged it off the stem other than that you can also prefer to dry of the freshly harvested once u till dry then you can plant, so like this I'll soaked this dry seeds in water for like 4-5 hours while tilting the ground, soaking it in water for that long allows the hard core seeds to soften inorder for it to absorb moisture in the ground and aid fast growth, so I'll make a shallow hole were I bury them three per hole cover the sands and water it, for few days the newly germinated plant should surfaced, once it sprout, some species can take up to month or more than that before the yellow flowering bods sprout out after maturity.

HARVESTING OF THE OKRA
As you can see here, it's due for Harvesting, once the pods bearing the seeds are fully developed, it's very good you harvest once you noticed it cause if allow to stay too long it can become strong which is not good, the beest time to harvest is when it's still very tender and soft, harvesting can be done almost on daily basis

HEALTH BENEFITS OF THE OKRA
I don't know from which country you're reading this from, but I bet you to plant one of these in your homestead farmland it's very rich various health benefits and I'm sure your body to thankyou for consuming it, the okra popularly known as ladies finger is very rich in various minerals and vitamins, dietary fibre,

Hey out there it's time to say OK' to OK'-ra , it's disease fighting nutrient helps keeps the heart healthy, maintains blood sugar level, aid in proper digestion thanks to it rich dietary fibre nutrients, okra also boost strong bone cause it's rich in calcium and vitamin k content.

CONSUMPTION
First of All it can be eaten raw, heard it's good with voice training, apart from that in Africa it's one of the very good ingredients for preparing a good, delicious soup, normally this soup are stock with All manner of condiments like dried or fresh fish, meat, perewinkle, stock fish, any vegetable leaves, palm oil, crayfish etc, it's a sight you can not resist so tempting and delicious it is often eaten with Garri (cassava granular) or fufu, this are edible food that are mostly eaten with soups.

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I hope you find okra fascinating and you'd love to try it out, thanks for reading through appreciate